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The person stuck doing the waiting in a [[Stood Up]] situation is almost [[Always Female]], though doesn't ''have'' to be related to romance.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* ''[[Code Geass]]'' does a version of [[Stood Up]] that doesn't quite fit one of the five examples above. Shirley, one of Lelouch's best friends who has a crush on him, invites him to a concert. When an important meeting for his [[La Résistance]] group comes up, he tries to phone her to apologize and not rise suspicions/risks for either of them, but she calls him first to say that she and her mother have to do something out in the country. When he finally shows up at the concert hall long after it's over, Shirley's standing alone in the rain and looking ''very'' tearful. He tries to apologize, but she interrupts to reveal that her father Joseph was killed by Zero (Lelouch's secret identity), and that "something out in the country" was identifying his corpse. Cue full-episode [[Angst]] for Lelouch. {{spoiler|And a full-blown [[Break the Cutie]] for poor Shirley.}}
* Sousuke from ''[[Full Metal Panic]]'' does '''Type 3''' to Chidori fairly often, when he's called to go away on a mission and forgets to tell her.
* Hiro in ''[[Ef a Fairy Tale of The Two|Ef- A Tale of Memories]]'' tells his would be girlfriend Miyako he'll meet her at the fountain. In a classic '''Type 4,''' his other potential love interest Kei gets a serious injury in her leg and he accompanies her to the clinic. Miyako is so distressed that she waits for hours and leaves a series of 99(!) increasingly distressed messages on his phone, which he doesn't have with him. (To be fair to Miyako, she's so despaired because {{spoiler|she has ENORMOUS issues due to her parents's horrible divorce and subsequent [[Parental Abandonment]]}}) [[Kick the Dog|Kei finds said phone and deletes them before he can even check]], [[Green
* [[Tear Jerker|A particularly tragic version]] of '''Type 5''' occurs in ''[[Outlaw Star]]''. Jim sets up a date with a Hanyou, nice girl that he meets... {{spoiler|and then without even knowing it kills her in a space battle. Neither was aware that the other was aboard the ship that they were fighting and both wanted to hurry up and win so that they could make the date.}} In the end Jim shows up on time and when Hanyou doesn't he thinks that he's been stood up.
* '''Type 1''' almost happened in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' when, thanks to a drugged tea, Negi overshot an afternoon nap and woke up four hours after his date with Nodoka. After panicking a bit, Chamo reminds Negi that since it's ''[[Shrinking Violet|Nodoka]]'' he's dating, there's a very good chance that she patiently waited for him during all that time, making Negi panic even more. Good thing that it was all part of [[Mad Scientist|Chao's]] test run for her experimental [[Time Machine]], eh?
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* In Tim Burton's 1989 ''Batman'', Vicki Vale thinks that Bruce Wayne stood her up for dinner at the museum. In reality, Joker had set it up. After Joker gasses the other patrons and trashes the museum, he menaces Vicki for a while until Batman shows up and rescues her.
* There's a particularly bizarre version in ''[[The Sixth Sense]]'', and when Malcolm shows up all apologies, his wife simply mutters "Happy anniversary", otherwise ignoring him. There's a [[Dead All Along|reason,]] [[It Was His Sled|of course...]]
* In ''[[Flubber]]'', [[Robin Williams]] plays an [[Absent
* A Type 2 showed up in ''Last Chance Harvey.'' Turns out the poor guy was in the hospital for a preexisting condition and extremely upset about it. He got quite cranky with the doctors.
* In the sixth ''[[Harry Potter (Film)|Harry Potter]]'' film, Harry flirts with a [[Canon Foreigner|random Muggle waitress]], whom he's forced to stand up when Dumbledore arrives just before their date. She's never seen again. [[Roger Ebert]] took a liking to this incidental character and expressed his hope that they could fit her into the next movie somehow.
* Subverted with a side of [[One Dialogue, Two Conversations]] in [[You've Got Mail]].
* In ''[[Warrior Cats (Literature)|Warrior Cats]]'', Leafpool accidentally does this to Crowfeather - she'd promised to meet him, but then had to come desperately to RiverClan's aid when Mothwing could not heal them alone.
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